The Wider Goldsmiths' Trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London

This book fills a gap in seventeenth-century studies of the Goldsmiths’ Company. The Wider Goldsmiths’ Trade in Elizabethan and Stuart London is the first book to study all aspects of the goldsmiths’ trade. It challenges the assumption that the manufacture of silver plate and gold jewelry was only overseen by the Goldsmiths’ Company during the seventeenth century. It also considers allied trades such as refining, wiredrawing, and the making of small swords and watches, as well as the developm…